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The Role: Director
Brunswick Group a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues is seeking a Director in Chicago with expertise in counseling consumer companies and business leaders on a wide range of highstakes issues to join its Consumer Industries Sector (CIG) team. In addition to clientfacing responsibilities the CIG Director will play an important role in the marketing and internal leadership of the sector team one of the largest at the firm. Directors along with Partners serve as firm leaders and play a critical role in driving client work and the overall success of the firm.
Brunswick is a widely recognized industry leader. For nearly four decades Brunswick has consistently ranked at the top of our industrys league tables for M&A communications on a country regional and global basis. Over the last five years the firm has advised on more than 1000 M&A transactions totaling $2 trillion in value. In 2024 Brunswick ranked the #1 global M&A communications advisor advising on 295 transactions valued at $583B. We were also awarded the Band 1 ranking by Chambers and Partners for Crisis & Risk Management for four consecutive yearsand 2024.
Our Chicago office serves as the global hub for our consumer industries sector working with clients in retail food and beverage consumer packaged goods and hospitality and is one of the fastest growing offices in our network. Founded in 2017 the office has grown from four to 40 professionals and the home office for some of our highest profile client work in the region.
Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
Client Contribution & Handling
- Deliver strategic advice to consumer industries clients drawing on specialist communications expertise and depth of professional advisory experience
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of the clients business and strategic communications issues spanning financial situations crisis litigation and/or transformation
- Monitor level of account profitability and intervene as necessary
Communication Skills
- Express a point of view in a thoughtful manner; analyze and distill complex information
- Write thoughtful wellstructured content; consider audience in style and tone of communications
- Exhibit and exercise sound judgement and discretion
- Question and challenge in a constructive way; present unpopular ideas to senior executives with poise and confidence
Business Development
- Source new business opportunities along with Partner apply knowledge and experience to lead wellrun pitch teams and drive the pitch preparation
- Use deep knowledge of key sectors to promote new business approaches and ideas
- Assist in pitches across regions and sectors
- Identify new opportunities to deliver other Brunswick expertise to existing clients; actively pursue and secure extensions of client relationships
- Build and maintain strong external networks to deliver valuable insight to clients and the firm
Teams
- Actively and effectively manage account teams; drive the daytoday
- Keep the Partner and other team members informed of account and project status
- Foster development of team members skills and client handling ability by identifying new challenges and encouraging team to stretch where appropriate
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- 1015 years of experience in advising consumer industries clients including csuite stakeholders around strategic communications for critical issues (i.e. Litigation Financial Situations Crisis)
- Extensive expertise and focus on understanding key stakeholders and issues within consumer industries subsectors such as retail hospitality CPG
- Experience managing teams of five or more people
- Proven ability to successfully interact with toptier media in proactive and reactive situations
- Strong work ethic and attention to detail; client serviceorientation
- Exceptional research writing and communication skills
- Ability to multitask and prioritize competing deadlines with attention to detail
- Exhibit discretion with confidential client matters
- Strong financial acumen interest and understanding of capital markets and a range of business and financial situations involving U.S. public companies
- Appetite for consuming a wide range of news from multiple sources
- Emotionally intelligent and adept at reading the room
- Professional polish energy and clear leadership skills
- Natural team player who invests in the people around them
- Entrepreneurial collaborative and comfortable in a roll your sleeves up environment
- Adept at navigating and succeeding within highperformance highstandards environments
About Brunswick
Brunswick is a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues. Our purpose is to help the great valuecreating organizations of the world play a more successful role in society.
We advise on critical issues at the center of business politics and society and help our clients the leaders of large complex organizations understand and navigate these interconnected worlds.
Brunswick is one firm globally operating as a single profit center. This allows us to respond seamlessly and effectively to clients needs wherever they are in the world.
Founded in London in 1987 Brunswicks global partnership has grown organically to 27 offices in 18 countries. We began as a M&A and financial communications firm and over time expanded our capabilities and expertise to crisis communications public and regulatory affairs major litigation business and society cyber employee engagement with digital insight and creative capabilities.
We rank number 1 in the world over the last five years by global deal value and global deal volume and were named Band 1 advisors in the U.S. and the UK by Chambers and Partners the legal rankings service as one of the very top communications firms offering legal and litigation support work.
Our Global CEO is Henry Timms based in New York. Our Chairman is Sir Alan Parker based in London.
The Americas
In the U.S. we have offices in Chicago Dallas New York San Francisco and Washington D.C. In Brazil we have an office in Sao Paulo. We advise clients on among other things domestic and cross border M&A IPOs activism capital markets and investor relations public and regulatory affairs geopolitical issues litigation crisis cyber employee engagement digital opinion research and on broader reputation campaigns.
Colleagues in the U.S. are drawn from a variety of backgrounds and consist of indepth industry and sector experts from banking law accounting politics government journalism and the media consulting and elsewhere. Our U.S. CEO is Nik Deogun.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
